An election agent may appoint sub-agents to act on their behalf.
Election agents may appoint sub-agents for particular parts of the constituency,1
as long as those parts do not overlap. The agent can determine the parts into which they wish to sub-divide the constituency, and these may cross electoral area boundaries.
The office of the sub-agent must be in the area within they are appointed to act.2
A sub-agent can do anything that the election agent is entitled to do within the area to which they are appointed.3
However, sub-agents may only attend the verification, count and/or calculation of the regional result where these are taking place within the area in which they have been appointed to act and they are acting in place of the election agent. Sub-agents may attend the opening of postal votes, provided the opening takes place in the area within which they have been appointed to act.
The election agent must declare to you in writing the name, address and office address of each sub-agent they have appointed and the area in which they may act by the second working day before the day of the poll.4
You should include a form for the notification of appointment of sub-agents in your nomination packs.
The election agent can revoke the appointment of a sub-agent at any time. If a sub-agent dies or has their appointment revoked, the election agent may appoint a new sub-agent by declaring in writing the name, address, office address and area of appointment of the new sub-agent to you.
Once the name, address, office address and area of appointment of a sub-agent have been declared to you, you must give public notice of these details.5